{"id":1983,"date":"2014-05-31T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T10:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2014-05-31T10:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T10:38:49","slug":"these-trousers-are-3000-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/these-trousers-are-3000-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"These trousers are 3,000 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1984\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T.jpg\" alt=\"T\" width=\"323\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T.jpg 323w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/T-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a>A recent excavation in western China has uncovered what is thought to be one of the oldest examples of trousers anywhere in the world, a new study has found.<br \/>\nThe trousers are believed to be between 3,300 to 3,000 years old.<br \/>\nThe excavation of the tombs in Yanghai graveyard in China\u2019s Tarim Basin found two men and with them the item whose straight-fitting legs and a wide crotch are much like modern riding trousers, says a team led by archaeologists Ulrike Beck and Mayke Wagner of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. The findings published in Quaternary International, boost suggestions that Central Asian nomadic herders invented trousers to allow for freedom of movement when on horseback.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/these-trousers-are-3000-years-old\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent excavation in western China has uncovered what is thought to be one of the oldest examples of trousers anywhere in the world, a new study has found. The trousers are believed to be between 3,300 to 3,000 years old. The excavation of the tombs in Yanghai graveyard in China\u2019s Tarim Basin found two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}